NOW LOOK WHERE WE ARE!!!!

We departed Washington on Thursday 7/12 with 42,000 lbs. of onions headed for upstate NY. We had a great trip across, including taking a new route through Montana that took us by Custer's last stand and by the BadLands of South Dakota. We delivered our load on Tuesday morning and reloaded a truckload of canned vegetables.......

.............going to NEW YORK CITY........!!!!!



Look at this delivery location......

What an experieince!!

Although we began our day 60 miles from NYC at 5 am- we were still in rush hour traffic all the way to our delivery site on the East River. If that wasn't enough- we hit multiple THUNDERSTORMS! while in the city. [These storms were so close there was only 1 or 2 seconds between lightning and thunder clap and the accompanying rain was coming down in sheets!]

Most of my pictures of the rain did not turn out because it was also so dark that my flash went off (even thought is was after 8 am ). Here is a shot of one of the rivers formed by the rainfall-this is on the freeway through the Bronx. Also notice how tight the lanes are!

Much of the freeway through Brooklyn is elevated- and, of course, there is road construction. Here you can see that there is JUST enough room for our truck to pass. There are also many low overpasses. At one point signs said there was a 12' 6'' clearance ahead (we need 13'6") - so we took the next exit - unnecessarily at it turns out - and ended up needing to do a U-turn on city streets in Brooklyn to return to the freeway. Way to go Kurt!

This is the closest we came to Manhattan- driving under the Brooklyn Bridge

We left the city by driving across to Staten Island and then over the Hudson river via the Verazano Bridge to New Jersey. On a clear day you would be able to see the tip of Manhattan Island from this bridge- but not today!!

We parked the truck in New Jersey and now will take a well deserved day off!